Granderson: 'Rustin' should be required for US history classes
In the '90s I was a founding member of the Black History Club in high school, took black history courses…
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Beyoncé makes history by topping the country music chart
It looks like Beyoncé's country music will stay, back, back, back, back. The “Break My Soul” singer empirically put an…
Oscar Rewind – 2004: 'Fog of War' takes the documentary award
Documentary films and their directors are generally not known for their star power. Most Academy Award-winning directors emerge with a…
Issues from childhood to old age in short documentaries
This year's Oscar-nominated short documentaries weave their way through lives of hardship and empowerment, illuminating the ways we approach life's…
Live action shorts: Stories of life and death among the nominees
It's a particular challenge to achieve serious emotional impact on a smaller canvas, but the 2024 Oscar-nominated live-action shorts tackle…
Opinion: Blocking aid to Ukraine is no way to dirty the United States
For Presidents' Day, the House will take two weeks off. But first the Republicans who govern the place badly honored…
The director of the documentary Daniel Roher on the death of Alexei Navalny
Daniel Roher’s 2022 Oscar-winning documentary “Navalny” helped make Alexei Navalny’s story more visible to people around the world, offering an…
'Selena & Yolanda: Secrets Between Them' is the latest exploitation of Selena's memory
Earlier this month, the Oxygen network announced “Selena & Yolanda: The Secrets Between Them,” a two-part docuseries airing Saturday that…
Ziggy Marley talks Bob Marley biopic 'One Love'
When Ziggy Marley cast Kingsley Ben-Adir and Lashana Lynch as his parents in “One Love,” the long-awaited Bob Marley biopic,…
History and tradition give rise to an original song 'Flower Moon'
“Get up,” Scott George tells his people, the Osage, in the original song that concludes “Killers of the Flower Moon.”…